This Function shall be capable of providing the following facilities:<br/><br/>(1) The ability to prepare new PT Service Plans at the request of the PT Operator, taking account of constraints such as, the geographic area to be served, quality of service parameters (e.g. frequency of Vehicles, required routes), timetables, synchronisation, PT Driver duty scheduling, co-ordination with other modes of transport, etc.<br/>(2) The ability to also prepare new PT Service Plans that are variations in the normal service provision when input is received about such things as special events, unusual traffic conditions, changes in the services provided by other PT operations, the occurrence of incidents that affect the flow of traffic in the road network and requests resulting from the implementation of a demand management strategy. <br/>(3) The ability to send the newly prepared PT Service Plans to the Manage PT Service Plan Data function for use by other PT functionality and to other Functional Areas, such Provide Traveller Journey Assistance, where it will be used to plan Travellers' trips.<br/>(4) The ability to also send newly prepared PT Service Plans to other instances of this functionality such as different PT service providers and the operators of other transport modes.<br/>
(a) collect planning strategies, plans for road works, other (Multi-Modal and similar, i.e. Road Related) services planning, plans for special events, predicted traffic conditions, historic journey times and specific service requests using the relevant input data flows;<br/>(b) obtain the details of the existing PT Service Plans from the Manage PT Service Plan Data Store using the updated scheduling data flow to request and the PT scheduling data flow to provide the details;<br/>(c) enable the PT Operator to combine the above information and requirements and initiate the definition of a new PT Service Plans including fares strategies, using the service planning strategies data flow;<br/>(d) make the selected the new PT Service Plans available to other functions in the Manage PT and Manage Traffic Functional Areas using the relevant output data flows;<br/>(e) also make the new PT Service Plans available to other (Multi-Modal and similar, i.e. Road Related) systems using the planning output data flows<br/>(f) send the new PT Service Plans to the Manage PT Service Plan Data Store function for loading into that Data Store the updated scheduling data flow;<br/>(g) send the new PT Service Plans to the Provide PT Operator Interface to PT Schedule Plans function using the revised services and schedules data flow.<br/>